We escape the flood damaged Sydney studio this week and travel to the East with our make shift portable setup. Tune in to discover our “mystery location”, travel hijinks, and Robots! This episode is exclusive to Plus+ members. To join, click HERE. Links Could our ancestors see blue? Ancient people didn’t perceive the colour because they…

Alaska is big. At 663,300 square miles, it’s about the size of Germany, Poland, and France. To put its size into perspective, if Alaska were a sovereign nation, it would be the 18th largest country on the planet. This picturesque state is filled with scenic (if not cold) ocean views, thick forests, the highest mountains…

Deserts are stark, barren places that seem to be natural habitats for the spooky and supernatural. With their vast expanses of sand, scrub, and unchanging, desolate surroundings, deserts seem to lie somewhere in another realm beyond time and reality. They are scary places, remote, deadly, and remorseless, posing challenges for life that has evolved there and…

Death, it seems is an immutable fact of life. We are tethered to it, destined for it, and indeed fearful of it. Throughout history mankind has sought to cheat this inevitable end. It seems we have a very strong urge to stave of death’s grip or at least in some cases to return from it. There…

Alien Hunter and its sequel Alien Hunter: Underworld are the first two novels in an exciting new series by idiosyncratic Texas-born author Whitley Strieber. Although originally a writer of horror fiction, Strieber is best remembered for his 1987 book Communion, a powerful and deeply personal account of supposed contact with mysterious alien beings. Whatever one’s individual…

In Irish mythology, it is said that a race of kings descended from the heavens to the ancient, pre-Celtic culture of Ireland. These tall, bright, shining creatures were elegant and beautiful and brought with them the secret knowledge of the gods. While the Tuatha represent a caste…

The UK’s recent approval of “Three parent babies” leads into a discussion on the pros and cons of genetic modification of human beings and what our future lives might be like as the technology advances. We then feature the science of taste, why Ben is “taste blind”,…

While “Dusty Rain” may be a great name for a country western singer, it’s not something you want to find covering your car, your house and everything else outdoors. That’s why residents of parts of Oregon, Washington and Idaho in the northwestern U.S. were concerned over the…

It’s one of the oddest stories in UFO history. It’s also one of the least known and long forgotten. It’s the weird saga of an actor who never quite made the big time, but who produced a less than great movie on UFOs that got him into major problems with…

Prior to becoming known as an “abductee” with the publication of Communion in 1987, Whitley Strieber wrote two bestselling horror novels: The Wolfen and The Hunger. Both were adapted into films. The Hunger, published in 1981, deserves to go down in literary history as one of the…

One of the most fascinating aspects of the UFO phenomenon – and particularly so that which focuses on the “alien abduction” controversy – is one which makes a connection between encounters of the unearthly kind and owls. There are numerous reports on file where people who have…

It seems like whenever a hole is opened in Siberia, whether by nature or by man, something unusual is inside. That was the case recently in Siberia’s Kuznetsk Basin, Russia, where coal miners found an ancient stone object that appears to be a model of a flying…

Sometimes the most important thing about a picture is the photographer. Earlier this week, NASA announced that the New Horizons probe—long on its way to Pluto—had captured the closest images ever recorded of the long-mysterious dwarf planet. Not the most detailed (that distinction belongs to the Hubble…

I love a good mystery, I love odd animals and I love tuna salad sandwiches so I’ve been watching this story about a strange but tiny beast found in a can of tuna to see how it turns out. It looks like it’s finally been identified. If…

Robots have been everywhere in the news this past week so let’s get right to the stories. At the Naval Future Force Science & Technology Expo in Washington, D.C., the Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) made its debut. Still in testing, SAFFiR is designed to combat fires…

All flies look alike to me but not to their parents. That’s why some papa flies get suspicious when one or a thousand of their offspring look more like their mama’s ex-boyfriend. They had to believe her excuse that it was just a coincidence … until now….

Well, my previous article on what have become know as the “Roswell Slides” has provoked a flurry of comments, via Facebook, Twitter, and email. Several of the writers took me to task for suggesting that even if the slides are the real deal – or are perceived…